Temple of the Dark Moon

hello to the world out there!!! today marks my first day into the wonderful world of Kuantan with the intention to use its shopping mall instead of just passing through its bus terminal. well, i must say its rather large. comparable to klang parade i suppose. everyone from Kuala Terengganu to Kuantan flock this small little piece of shopping haven because it’s the only shopping mall for miles around. just stating the facts…not being sarcastic or anything..hohoho.

well, we went down with the specific goal of watching ‘The Da Vinci Code’ movie. the movie was at 12 we got the tickets at around 12.10. so naturally, miss a little bitsy bit of the start, but no harm done since i already read the book..not much to fear. afterall, the initial part of the film is nothing of a great story anyways.

the final verdict? so-so. the movie is pretty much fast forwarded like any other movie that is based on a book. so the eerie and mystery feel of the movie is pretty much gone. from the movie alone it wouldnt be that much of shaking the very foundations of the Church. i would recommend reading the book. i was glued to it for hours anyhoo.

the symbolism, the cover up thingie… is by theory, based on tangible, observable objects. the part of finding mary magdalene is of course total fiction. and it seems the cryptex is a creation of the author himself and not Da Vinci. as far as history is concern, all the claims in the book… are as of now, nonsense. there is just too much loop holes surrounding all the ‘facts’ the book uses to tell the story of the biggest cover up of modern history.

scholars are at odds on whether Roslyn Church is indeed built by the Knight Templars. although the church itself holds alot of templar symbolism, alot of other mysteries that surround it still remains.. well, a mystery. there is also the very fundamental question as to whether the Priory of Scion even exist. People only found out about the Priory when someone found a stash of ‘Dossier Secrete’ in the Paris Library. how convenient, secret documents just happen to pop out of the blue in the libray eh? however, since there is no way to prove or disprove that the document is not authentic, it shall remain as it is. a document.

and conveniently, inside those documents lay all the information regarding the Priory, from its Grand Masters of the past and the Grand Master to be, to the Merovingian Line and so on and so forth. and most problematic of all, this is the only document in the entire world that suggest what the Priory is doing. no other sources has been found. so your guess is as good as mine.

X-men 3 was right after da vinci’s code. barely had an hour for lunch but made it all the same. for starters… cyclops was dead 5 mins into the show. and final verdict, a so-so show again. jean became an all powerful goddess, the fighting was rather… well, boring. professor xavier died one hour into the show, jean died in the end of the show. magneto lost his mutant powers in the end of show. the stupid winged guy really does nothing for the story of the show. he just exist in the front as some one’s son, and the end to save his daddy from certain death. and the twist is that magneto maybe getting his power back but before he can even move the metal chess piece it was the credits time.

din wanna talk much about a so-so show so there you go. 19 bucks down GSC’s pocket but i got to watch movie at the very least… =})